Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Libya and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing AZ to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Matthew Bourne. All the underground hits.
All The Five Americans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jimmy McGriff record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joey Negro record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bauhaus,
Animal Collective,
The Gun Club,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ornette Coleman,
Wings,
John Lydon,
Audionom,
Liliput,
Section 25,
Fad Gadget,
Symarip,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Star Department,
Marc Almond,
Jimmy McGriff,
Dual Sessions,
Bootsy Collins,
Essential Logic,
Agent Orange,
Camouflage,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Erykah Badu,
The Beau Brummels,
Black Bananas,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Main Source,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Smoke,
The American Breed,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Detroit Cobras,
the Human League,
B.T. Express,
Soulsonic Force,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Eurythmics,
Sister Nancy,
Kurtis Blow,
Loose Ends,
OOIOO,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Unrelated Segments,
Pantaleimon,
Hashim,
Patti Smith,
Dead Boys,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kerri Chandler,
Bobby Hutcherson,
New York Dolls,
Severed Heads,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Mark Hollis,
Malaria!,
Duran Duran,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bill Near,
Unwound,
Half Japanese,
Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.